Katarina Kushin
301
Fall 2014

Given the proximities of the reserve, the project is powered by the approach of the visitors from three different views points. Upon following this site condition, it furthermore focuses on materiality over form in order to achieve a semi-transparent association with the reserve. The project explores the densities that can be achieved by layering perforated steel screens and the result of super-imposed planes angled forty-five degrees from each other resulting in the moiré effect. The visitors play an additional factor, acting as a moving object in context to the screen shell both inside and outside, distant and intimate, narrowed and stretched. This dynamic relationship between the space and its visitor is not meant to overpower or impose the reserve but offer an additional area for exploration. Minor ideas were explored as well such as the upside-down datum condition as shown in section and questioning the role of the researcher (is he teacher or scientist?), which resulted in a more public workspace in plan. However, ultimately the objective was to explore the phenomenology of space using materials and their fundamental qualities.